HonorsEuro2009-10 - WWII Timeline

Date	Event
3/7/1936 July 1937 1937	Germany sent troops into demilitarized Rhineland U.S. enters the war in Asia Japan invades Nothern China
3/13/1938	Germany annexes Austria
9/29/1938	Germany occupies the Sudetenland (Munich Conference)
3/15/1939	Germany invades the Czech border
3/1939	France and Britain realized that only the Soviet Union stood a chance and began negotiations with Joseph Stalin and the Soviets.
3/19/1939	Germany occupies all of Czechoslovakia
5/22/1939	Nazis sign Pact of Steel with Italy.
8/23/1939	German- Soviet Union Non-Agression Pact made
9/1/1939 8/23/1939	Germany invaded Poland -annexed, and made into provinces Hitler negotiates aggression pack towards Poland
9/3/1939	Britain declares war on Germany
9/17/1939	The Soviet Union invaded Poland
9/28/1939	Germany and the Soviet Union divide up Poland
4/9/1940	Blitzkrieg (attack) by Germany against Denmark and Norway
April 1940	Germany seizes Yugoslavia and Greece
5/10/1940	Germany attacks the Netherlands, Belgium, and France Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
May 1940	British army and French troops trapped on beaches of Dunkirk by German forces
6/5/1940 6/18/1940	Germany begins offensive against Southern France Soviet Union is invaded by Baltic States
August 1940	Luftwaffe (air attack) by Germany against the British air and naval force, harbors, war indutries, etc.
Sept. 1940	Hitler orders massive bombing of British cities
end of Sept. 1940	Germany loses the Battle of Britain
Sept. 1940	British troops defeat Italian army in North Africa
July 1940	Germany begins preparations for invading the Soviet Union
4/13/1941	Japan and Soviet Union sign neutrality pact
6/22/1941 7/1941	Germany invades the Soviet Union U.S. cuts off all sales iron and oil to Japan Japan occupies Indochina Czech declared war on all the countries at war with the US, England, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
1941	Jews shipped to Poland-extermination camps
10/1941	U.S. begins supplying the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease Act
By Nov. 1941	Germany swept through the Ukraine and besieged Leningrad
12/ 07/ 1941 12/08/ 1941 12/11/1941	Japan attacks U.S. at Pearl Harbor U.S. declares war on Japan Germany declared war on the United States
1942 02/19/1942	By this year, 2 mill.Germans occupied Poland Roosevelt orders all Japanese-Americans to be relocated in specified centers
Spring 1942 4/1942 04/09/1942	Germany had captured the entire Crimea Almost all of Southeast Asia and the western Pacific had fallen into Japanese Hands U.S. forces in Phillipines surrender to the Japanese
May 7-8 1942 June 4, 1942	American defeat of Japan in the Battle of the Coral Sea relieve Australia of the threat of Japanese invasion U.S. planes destroy attacking Japanese aircrafts and become Pacific Naval Superiority
7/3/1942	Germans take Sevastopol
Summer 1942	British forces stop Roommel's trrops at El Alamein
11/11/1942	Germans and Italians invade Vichy France
November 1942	British and American troops invade French North Africa
January 14-24, 1943 1/27/1943 1943	FDR and Churchill host the Casablanca Conference First bombing raid by Americans on Germany at Wilhelmshaven Us, China, and Britain agree that Korea would be allowed to become a free and independent after Allied victory
2/2/1943	Germans surrender at Stalingrad
5/13/1943	German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa
8/12/1943 Nov 28-Dec 1, 1943	Germans evacuate Sicily FDR, Churchill, and Stalin agree on invasion plans at the Tehran Conference
January 22, 1944 5/12/1944 6/4/1944 6/6/1944 8/1944	U.S. and British troops land at Anzio on the Italian coast Germans surrender in the Crimea U.S. and British troops enter Rome Allies launch Normandy Invasion Soviet Union invaded German-occupied Romania
1/17/1945	Soviet troops captured Warsaw
Feb 1945 3/6/1945 1945	FDR and Stalin estblish trusteeship for Korea at the Yalta Conference Last German offensive of the war begins Soviets invade Korea
4/1945 4/18/1945	Soviet Union captured Vienna German forces in the Ruhr surrender
4/30/1945	Hitler commits suicide
5/2/1945	Soviet troops completed the capture of Berlin and all remaining German troops surrendered within a few days. The war in Europe ends.
6/5/1945 August 1945	Allies divide up Germany and take over the government Harry Truman proposed Stalin the diviosn of Korea- split into North and South
7/16/1941	Czech declared war on all the countries at war with the US, England, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
July 1937	China is invaded by Japan
June 1938	Chinese flooded the Yellow River to get ahead of Japan
May 1940	Germany assaulted Scandinavia during the war
1936	Spainsh Civil War causes a joint intervention of Germany and Italy
10/1936	Hitler and Mussolini come to an agreement with common political and economical interests.
6/10/1940	Mussolini declares war on France.
10/1940	Mussolini invaids Greece.
1943	Tide of the war turns against Germany, Itlay and France
5/13/1943	Italy surrendered in Tunisia.
9/1943	The Allies brought the war to Italy. Italy offered to surrender to the Allies but Mussolini set up the German state in northern Italy and the Allies moved up penninsula.
6/4/1944	Rome fell to the Allies.
April 12, 1945	U.S. President Roosevelt dies and is replaced by Truman
August 6, 1945	U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
8/14/1945	Japan surrenders to the US